Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward who discharged himself from hospital a month ago has had the plaster removed from his shattered limbs . |
| 2 | Though he was , like McCarthy , anti-war , he believed Johnson to be invincible ; now he too entered the race , much to the chagrin of the McCarthy camp who accused him of muscling in on their act . |
| 3 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 4 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
| 6 | We parked in the InterCity car park which had plenty of room . |
| 7 | Before we left , she wrote her phone number on a beer mat and in the car park she slipped it to Werewolf before she put her crash hat on and fired up the engine . |
| 8 | Every weekend he gave Mossman the baker a shilling for his cart and every Saturday afternoon he pushed it from the bakery to the square in the High Street and harangued the passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war . |
| 9 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 10 | The transmissions use those soliton waves we told you about way back in summer 1990 ( CI No 1,459 ) , which are electronically induced and never lose their shape as they whiz through optical glass fibre , so that signalling errors are all but non-existent , obviating the need for costly error-correction equipment , which also slows down transmission . |
| 11 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 12 | I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the . |
| 13 | They were distributed ( quite how was never made clear ) among three sections , and then among lineage shaikhs who distributed them to household heads . |
| 14 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 15 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , he liked this good-natured plough boy who knew nothing except horses . |
| 17 | Rosa scandens , ‘ a wild , woody , climbing rose , with a shining evergreen Myrtle leaf , a white sweet-scented flower and small , round prickly fruit ’ , was , he said , found in woods near Florence by Signor Micheli who sent it to Dr Boerhaave of Leyden , ‘ in whose curious garden I saw it growing in the year 1727 . ’ |
| 18 | It was the Lucy Ghosts who supplied him with the cash that helped him build his empire . ’ |
| 19 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |
| 20 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 21 | Muffled in furs , Franklin D. Hauser left the complex in a snow buggy which drove him to a helipad a kilometre away . |
| 22 | I was reminded of a similar mechanism at Evan Roberts department store which fascinated me as a boy in Cardiff during the early Fifties . |
| 23 | ‘ On the Saturday morning I saw her outside Pook 's stables . |
| 24 | What was mocked was the arrogant superiority of the traditionally educated arts man who knew nothing of the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 25 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
| 26 | During a horse show he positioned himself at the edge of the arena . |
| 27 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 28 | He did hurt his back and lost a fair chuck of elbow on the side instruments which kept him in hospital in the UK for a couple of weeks . |
| 29 | On Saturday mornings she took them for riding lessons , waited and took them back , while Norm went out to play golf . |
| 30 | DRAYTON Asia Trust yesterday joined in a war of words with EFM Dragon , the Edinburgh-managed investment trust which targeted it for takeover a fortnight ago . |